External Possession
Doris L. Payne (Ed.), Immanuel Barshi (Ed.)
External Possession Constructions (EPCs) are found in nearly all parts of the world and across widely divergent language families. The data-rich papers in this first-ever volume on EPCs document their typological variability, explore diachronic reasons for variations, and investigate their functions and theoretical ramifications. EPCs code the possessor as a core grammatical relation of the verb and in a constituent separate from that which contains the possessed item. Though EPCs express possession, they do so without the necessary involvement of a possessive predicate such as “have” or “own”. In many cases, EPCs appear to “break the rules” about how many arguments a verb of a given valence can have. They thus constitute an important limiting case for evaluating theories of the relationship between verbal argument structure and syntactic clause structure. They also raise core questions about intersections among verbal valence, cognitive event construal, voice, and language processing.
년:
2001
판:
1st
출판사:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
언어:
english
페이지:
586
ISBN 10:
9027229414
ISBN 13:
9789027229410
시리즈:
Typological Studies in Language 39
파일:
PDF, 4.36 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2001